From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: doc-view-set-doc-type's generality
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 08:57:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpnh46vqu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0STwFf2pzgbe8w_vh-r6ZcNB=5Ygsf=3CSGfe3Ei5B8r-g@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed, 4 Dec 2019 10:32:47 +0100")
> I mean, I could see the logic if it the code tried to detect cases of one
> extension (let's say, ".doc") that could represent different content-types.
AFAICT the main purpose is to detect the case of a pdf content with
a .doc extension and vice-versa. It's based on the idea that neither
extensions nor "magic content" are 100% reliable.
Stefan
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2019-12-04 9:32 doc-view-set-doc-type's generality Juanma Barranquero
2019-12-04 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-12-04 14:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
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